Weird Economies X The Chaoid Group present Iran Financescape's conference "Missed Dialogues", taking place April 18-19th on Zoom. Registration is now open to public.

"Trust Study #1 centers on a dialogue about the informal and illegal money transfer system originating in South Asia known as hawala. The conversation unfolds in silence through text against a backdrop of still images from a 1960s Pakistani travel guide. As the images move from the background to the foreground, another layer to the structure of hawala emerges. Trust Study #1 is the first in a larger body of work including sculptures, photography, and writing.”

Forest Partners highlights an often unseen side of forests – the economic ecosystems thriving between public and private organisations and local communities. Travelling the tropics, the film showcases successful innovations in sustainable production systems worldwide, proving it is possible to obtain social, environmental, and economic benefits by preserving or restoring forest landscapes. The initiatives featured over 45-minutes are based in South America, Africa, and Asia, in regions where there are still preserved forest landscapes, but where the impacts of deforestation and forest degradation are already widely felt. These solutions combine technology and traditional knowledge to protect tropical forests, with shared benefits – and they need to be scaled.

Game-Changers is a public storytelling board game. In the game, two teams that embody seemingly opposite discursive poles – for example Capitalism vs. Commonism, Green Growth vs. Degrowth, or Vectoralists vs. the Hacker Class – compete in creating compelling storylines about transformation in order to lay claim to playing fields consisting of real-world “new economy” initiatives and related ideas.

Please join for the first public gathering of Weird Economies in Lisbon, Portugal with a program of talks, screenings, and conversations by its organizers, board of advisors and associates.  The event is organized in partnership with Carpintarias de São Lázaro Cultural Center in Lisbon. Confirmed Participants are Bassam El Baroni, Erik Bordeleau, Vienne Chan, Sara Gaspar - Climáximo, Luiza Crosman with Duda Pedreira, João Enxuto and Erica Love, Hallie Frost, Bahar Noorizadeh, Pedro Gomes - AAVP, Margarida Mendes

we explore worlding & asset formation processes in a time of climate collapse, compounding injustice and web 3.0 terraforming

Come and participate in a hands-on workshop with astrologer Alice Sparkly Kat. We will look at different cosmological systems, calendars, and theories of change before doing a group exercise on making a story. Angela Davis reminds us that it is our duty to imagine that a different future is possible. Astrology is a storytelling tool and storytelling is about survival. Astrology uses storytelling and tries to make prophecy. This workshop is for anyone who yearns to be open to participating in an experimental exercise on creating collective possibility. Anyone who feels resistance or defense against storytelling is also welcome here.

Underlying the pension system is the normative claim that it provides economic security so that one will be cared for in old age, yet the system is failing the elderly of today and its sustainability is questionable. For the provision of care itself, the UK and many Western European countries have been relying on migrant workers, which in some cases have become a black market. In this conversation with our resident artist Vienne Chan and Kinga Milankovics, we will consider the pension system, the remittance economy and social organization.

Wages on Sand is set in Amsterdam’s Museum van Loon, a 17th century canal house located on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam’s Canal District, just a few blocks away from the so-called Golden Bend. The film opens this house up to particular aspects of the Van Loon family’s financial endeavors which have been excluded from the house for centuries.

A conversation between curator Bassam El Baroni and the artist duo Vermeir & Heiremans around their expansive practice that investigates the dynamics between economy, law, and governing, deploying the arts and the socio-economic conditions of artists as their preferred case studies. The conversation follows the screening of A Modest Proposal (in a Black Box) (2018), in which Vermeir & Heiremans, who are also the film's protagonists, discuss a new financial model with a lawyer. Their dialogue, witnessed by the lawyers assistant, focuses on the question if financialisation can be re-purposed towards generating a more equitable arts ecology.

"Alles hat Grenzen, NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT" is an environmental film musical, in which nature acts and speaks in a diversity of voices. Surfacing evocatively from micro- and macrocosmic layers, she resonates with water as the source of life and resounds as exploited resource. She echoes from the trenches of an inverted world and speaks out as a human being. Reverberating through ecological-cultural depths, images, sounds and associations push to light, giving shape to a vision of humanity being in tune with nature.

White Cube is a powerful and provocative dissection of art, class and decolonisation. The film follows the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC), a plantation workers’ cooperative based on a former Unilever plantation in the Congolese town of Lusanga, as they attempt to end the destructive system of monoculture on their lands – by building upon it a gallery, the ‘white cube’ of the title.